Also known as USGS Locality 26359
Where: King George County, Virginia (38.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 58.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Paspotansa Member (Aquia Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)
• 12 feet thick bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, micaceous, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1985. Stratigraphy and Characteristic Mollusks of the Pamunkey Group (Lower Tertiary) and the Old Church Formation of the Chesapeake Group-Virginia Coastal Plain. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (1346)1-77 [A. Miller/D. Buick]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60908: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Devin Buick on 27.05.2006, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Phyllodus toliapicus Agassiz 1839 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Odontaspis macrota" = Otodus macrotus
"Odontaspis macrota" = Otodus macrotus Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sinuosa oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell |